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Balranald Shire Council

3,547 rural lots across 12 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

3,547
Rural lots
3.08 M ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (LSC class 5)
44 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Balranald Shire Council — rural suburbs

© NSW Government · DEA · CSIRO TERN

Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page. Toggle the Capability / Bushfire / Flood overlays in the top-left.

Suburb circles · sized by rural lots
10 500 5,000+
Overlays © NSW Government
Capability

Land & soil capability mix

Distribution of NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability classes across the 3,547 rural lots in Balranald Shire Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–432%
Class 5–662%
Class 7–86%
NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 — Class 1 is prime cropping land, Class 8 is conservation only. Polygon-intersect with each rural lot.
Climate

Rainfall, temperature, growing window

30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged across rural lots in this council.

Annual rainfall
312 mm
Semi-arid
Mean max temp
24.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
39 / year
Hot summers
Frost days
23 / year
Light frost
Aridity index
0.16 P/PET
Arid

Climate values are the average across rural lots in this suburb, drawn from BOM 30-year normals (~1,820 weather stations, KNN to lot centroids).

Carbon

Carbon profile

Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.

44 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
12.83 M tCO₂e
total estimated
ESA CCI Biomass 2023, ~100m raster.
Vegetation

Cover profile

DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).

Green cover33%
Forest cover13%
Water

Surface water rights and groundwater

Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.

Water access

Surface and groundwater

Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.

100%
in a water sharing plan
0%
with groundwater access
Nearest registered bore
2.2
km away
A bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Lower Murray-Darling Unregulated River Water Source 2024

Source: NSW DCCEEW Water Sharing Plans · NSW DCCEEW Groundwater Bores Register.

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Balranald Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 65%
Groundwater vulnerable 36%
Recharge area or shallow aquifer.
Threatened ecological 24%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · Mine subsidence · Acid-sulfate soils · Contamination history · Coastal environment · In mining title
Infrastructure

Access and grid connection

Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Balranald Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 5.2 km
Nearest school 20.7 km
Rail station 178.4 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 35.1 km · 220 kV
Transmission line 28.7 km · 220 kV
Transmission line is far — energy export would need on-site storage or a feeder upgrade.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 43.0 km
Water treatment 23.6 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered RU-zoned sales across Balranald Shire Council, last 5 years.

$960k
per hectare (median)
115
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.

Grazing native vegetation

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Balranald Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across Balranald Shire Council; the rural-only $/ha rate above is the rural benchmark.

Price change · 12 mo
+176.7%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+589.1%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+57.2%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$292
+15.2% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.75%
Days on market
115 days
2 active listings

Trend indicators reflect the broader suburb market (rural + residential). $/ha rural rate above is the rural-only benchmark.

Rural suburbs in Balranald Shire Council (6)

Click any column header to sort. Capability is the median LSC class across rural lots; carbon is mean tCO₂e/ha; $/ha is the median 5-year rural sale rate (H/M/L pill = data confidence).

Suburb Rural lots
Balranald 2715 1,795
Oxley 2711 461
Corrong 2711 104
Hatfield 2715 86
Clare 2715 68
Mungo 2715 12
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine GI Murray Darling Tenure Crownland-Leasehold

About Balranald Shire Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Balranald Shire Council?

Across 3,547 rural lots in Balranald Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. The typical land-capability class is Limited ag use — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.

What's the climate of Balranald Shire Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Balranald Shire Council average 312 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 24.6°C, and 23 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.16 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.

What's the rural land market like in Balranald Shire Council?

Median rural rate across Balranald Shire Council is $960k/ha based on 115 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (high confidence).

What data sources are used?

Land capability is the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer. Carbon stock is the ESA CCI Biomass 2023 satellite product (~100m). Vegetation cover (green / forest) is DEA Fractional Cover (Sentinel-2). Climate is BOM 30-year normals from ~1,820 weather stations. Rural market is from registered NSW property sales filtered to RU-zoned lots.